What is the reason for high cholesterol? How to prevent and treat?

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When we go to the hospital for examination, we usually check whether the cholesterol is high. Why? Because we often hear that hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disease and so on all have the symptoms of high cholesterol. At this time, some people will want to know, what is the cause of high cholesterol? How to prevent and treat it? So, let's understand it together.

What is the reason for high cholesterol? How to prevent and treat?

There are many reasons for high cholesterol. Two of the most important are damage to liver cells and improper diet. These causes lead to the increase of total cholesterol, which may cause heart disease, cholesteremia and other diseases, and need to be treated and treated in time.

Improper diet refers to eating too much food with high cholesterol, such as heart, liver and other animal viscera. If you eat too much cholesterol, it will cause high total cholesterol; if liver cells are damaged, it will generally occur in people with liver diseases, which will cause esterification disorder of cholesterol, resulting in the rise of total cholesterol in the blood.

If you want to prevent cholesterol rise, you should start from diet. In diet, don't eat foods with high cholesterol, such as animal viscera and egg yolk. Eat more fruits and vegetables. Eat a light diet. Don't touch things with high oil, salt and sugar.

Exercise is also essential if you want to prevent a rise in cholesterol. Usually take part in some outdoor or sports, exercise can consume body fat, high cholesterol is also caused by excessive fat, burning fat is also a good way to prevent cholesterol rise.

For the treatment of hypercholesterolemia, the commonly used drugs are lovastatin, simvastatin, fluvastatin and other lipid-lowering drugs. Statins are the first choice for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia. It can inhibit the synthesis of cholesterol and reduce the concentration of triglyceride in blood.

General statins are suitable for the treatment of any type of hypercholesterolemia except homozygous familial (hereditary) hypercholesterolemia (among statins, only simvastatin has certain curative effect on homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia). It is safe to take statins in the short term, but it is easy to have side effects in the long term. Therefore, patients taking statins for a long time should regularly check their blood alanine aminotransferase and creatine kinase.

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If you detect that your cholesterol is on the high side, you must not think it is a small problem. If you ignore it, it is likely to cause a variety of diseases and threaten your health. Of course, as long as we have a correct understanding and active prevention and control, the general problem will not be too big.